julian assange comes forward with his first public comments is asking aquittal for political asylum claiming his case is deliberately being slowed down by sweden and the u.k. to give the us time to drop charges against. moody's as loves the world the biggest banks with a credit rating downgrade to adding more uncertainty to the ailing playbook economy . and what's in a word as the cia is said to be assisting with the transfer of weapons to the syrian rebels who take a look at what might be behind the media campaign accusing russia of bonds deals with president assad.

twenty four hours a day seven days a week that this is our team julian assange has broken his silence over the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he still awaits a decision on his request for political asylum in his interview the week elise editors said that even if his plea is unsuccessful his dramatic move has drawn the world's attention to what he describes as a conspiracy against him orchestrated by the us parties as sarah for the brings us more from london. escape a voice this is the words you're going to hear in the media at the moment relating to a soldier's decision what he said though is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in sweden far from that is that he felt really this was never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in sweden and the involvement of the u.s. . this issue is about

a very serious matter in the united states announced was my by discreet that i would be detained without charge. immediately on extradition she's a country for years to come to the u.k. for the past eighteen months despite absolutely normal procedure and the refusal to explain it in any manner whatsoever to reach court has kept retracts united to come while the united states has prepared to pay for concrete sense really that always leads to the u.s. eventing that there is a grand jury deciding at the moment whether there would be charges brought against him in the us remember that in the us as being arjun stillings a secret carries the death penalty still and then the wiki leaks everything huge amounts of information and the u.s. diplomatic cables that were released in two thousand and ten were huge embarrassment to the u.s.

government says i mean there is name mistaking the fact that julian a son is a man he certainly from his actions and from what he said is very fearful of what would happen to him in the u.s. officials for his license back. very now every forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five i read if there are far out there is the statement made in court prosecution probably money starts. around the managers of wiki leaks are among the subjects of the grand jury. which are now preparing to keep them and their superiors everywhere through comment on public record about how. three grand jury we have received. the subpoenas mention my name to people who are preparing to us report arrogated by the f.b.i. well this is julian assange just chance really to set the record straight he's just spent his third night in the ecuadorian embassy of course this is the latest dramatic twist in the ongoing saga it's been an eighteen month legal battle for him

and the end of last month we saw the u.k. supreme court reject his appeal against the extradition to sweden and the legal team in asuncion cells running out of options really and so he took this step seeking asylum at the ecuadorian embassy he says he's hopeful that that's going to be accepted if he were to go to sweden not only is the pretrial detention in sweden extremely harsh he wouldn't have access that he does right now to the media all the same freedoms remember he's been on house arrest in the case for more than five hundred days no clear indication of exactly what the outcome will be and the stakes remaining extremely high in his interview asunta once again slenderness ruling government for lack of support in his fight against extradition there was a blow was said it's at this sense of abandonment by his homeland that made him turn to the ecuador for help sydney based journalism mary because like he does as

the australian authorities have never had any interest in providing assistance. point is they haven't tried that's the problem the state has an obligation to its citizens to protect their human rights we live in an advanced western democracy we expect our government to act in a way that's principled and courageous and to show leadership in the protection of human rights astray has lost all moral authority to literature other countries on human rights i think it's a very sad day for our country if the fact is that sweden has a rather different arrangement with the u.s. to the u.k. so it will be easier to get to the u.s. from sweden but let's not ignore the facts sweden has covertly handed over people to the u.s. handed over asylum seekers to the cia those people were tortured and in the end it was a case of mistaken identity so swigs track record is not good

a sounders place in australia he needs to be back here. well ecuador says before delivering its decision on a sunday they have to weigh up all the information and assess if his possible extradition to the us presents a threat to his life the latin american countries president or rafael correa is sympathetic to the cause of reeky leaks something he made clear during a recent interview for songes own show that as here on our team you can watch a rerun of that program on this very channel next. time julian assange. it is true for sure it will be expose the world secrets these jackets belong united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this graphic on the wall illegally. five hundred days now i've been detained without charge. that doesn't stop the. day we're on

a quest for relief. can change the world tomorrow. moody's has less the ratings all fifteen of the biggest banks in europe and the u.s. and the latest slap in the fraser to the ailing financial sector those hitting goldman sachs morgan stanley royal bank of scotland and deutsche bank financial paul howes domestically and internationally the move could make it more expensive for the banks to attract funds it's also fear the downgrades could trigger a fresh market panic and a new exodus to gold but charlie mcgrath the economic blogger and founder of the website wide awake news says the end goal of the move is to spread fear. i think what we're going to see is this play out over the next couple weeks we're going to see more fear we're going to see more gloom by the mainstream business media in order to affect what citibank and they're going to be in just a week ago came out and said that they need it they need a shock to the market they need to get political cover not only the politicians

here in the u.s. could because let's face it the u.s. is the largest provider of bondage to the i.m.f. but they need to give political cover to the folks in europe as well so they can continue their process of evaporating in eviscerating representative government there and consolidating more power and handing it up to brussels i think we will see more mario monti's let's call him what he is he's a technocrat he was installed just like we saw inside of greece we will see the crisis escalates we will see fear and panic and i believe personally it is in geneva fear and panic in order to implement the agenda that they've talked about for a decade now global financial governance you need to have fear in order to take away people's sovereignty. saving the euro is going to be the priority for leaders of the eurozone for biggest economies who are meeting in rome whether there's enough time to rescue the single currency is also the topic for debate with peter lavelle and his guests in cross talk coming your way later today. but there's

a cost to fix course attached to each way out so i think what europe is doing at this moment is they're trying to calculate these costs as best as they can and they will choose the lower cost so i personally think letting greece out or any country out is going to be hurting the zone and the currency well that's either precedent has been set if you reject it is evil people go in there is that you know you kind of know you're nowhere to be able to avoid the who's next question that's number one because people will say the markets will say at least if greece is out why is the why is portugal why is it so these weak links will always be questions. as you say you u.s. officials acknowledge cia agents are supervising the transfer of arms from turkey to syrian rebels some politicians in the west are still trying to turn the heat up on russia for alleged military deals with the assad regime moscow has

a flatly deny the reports of any new deals but that didn't tame the media storm it is laura smith has tried to sift through what's false and what's fact. syria may be on the brink of civil war but it's already the subject of a full blown media war ships on new ships that's been the question for the past week as reports to well are since it was on its way according to the reports the battleships were laden with arms and troops and headed for syria it later turned out they were nowhere near syria they're in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of war any reports however inaccurate has some kind of influence. as long as you have so many forces. excited about the your option and that is that things are always yes they were and they were. going to get there through this

information as usual so like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventies also there was a delay of some information there was one ship it was turned back off the coast of scotland after it was found to be carrying helicopter parts bound to syria q a sessions that russia was supplying combat helicopters to president assad we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically it's an allegation that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says is part of a propaganda campaign pushing for which is being discussed but these days that indeed was scary for the defense systems and it was carrying the three helicopters which have been repaired in russia under the control of science into cells of

a there was a soviet helicopter seven hundred fifty eight in syria from seoul did this and the fuel cells and say there was a concert to repeal the bastille to be assembled you know when they are delivered the fifth of the symbols of the entire process will fit with less than three months so to speak about something which we just sold to syria and which is being used. in your actions is not true that it wasn't only ships apparently war games were planned to it rainy a news agency fawaz reported that iran russia china and syria are planning to conduct joint military exercises in syria next month analysts think the story was planted by syria or iran as a show of strength but that u.s. outlets took it up because it. suited them toward the u.s. and use the agency just love the story because it matches their narrative you know the. regime and its supporters in iran or russia or china or.

they are the ones who are. the conflict instead of seeking. peaceful solution so. the story you know. and use agents use then there's the war of words british prime minister david cameron came out of a meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying putin no longer wanted president to act that in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was putin's position but was it a case of lost in translation wishful thinking on the prime minister's parts or another attempt to exert pressure on russia in the last fifteen months is being a media attack on syria that the crisis to syrian crisis is seventy percent to media so two percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some observations by just some of those

using you tube and there is no confirmed reports anymore it's said the first casualty of war is the truth and all this international rumor mongering and jockeying for position comes at the expense of the syrian people the situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words lower smith r.t. . britain and the us are said to be considering giving president assad a clemency and safe passage out of syria if he goes to an international conference on polish handover my understanding of from the universal peace federation end believes it's a new tactic with an old motive. i think this is a tactical standing point by the west specifically by the u.s. and the british or the brits in order to maneuver actually this is a political maneuvering in the middle east so for in order to attack such. russian

let's say back up for it only the chinese even back up for this new i'm actually idea by the west in order for them to get rid. of you you know the out of the presidency i meant bashar last heard and this is their own tactical actually or strategical interests actually in the middle east and today above all is syria so the whole scenario i think it's an american movie illustrated and directed could be by the brits. here with our team still ahead in our business bulletin. the downgrade of fifty. now the u.s. and israel are reportedly behind a computer virus the aimed at spying on iran's nuclear activities the obama administration now faces claims of hypocrisy as it's always i denounce a computer hackers i think there is a targeting america is a guy and she can't has

a story. that american officials may sound defensive when they talk about cyber attacks as being a major threat to the country's security a weapon of mass disruption you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of the loss of the ryan fashions we typically associate with more fry the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power system certainly our grid acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists and suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer but it turns out the u.s. government itself carries out cyber attacks against other nations the washington post cites officials speaking on condition of anonymity who say entrap aeration full cyber sabotage against iran the u.s. and israel developed the flame virus flame is the most complex computer spying program ever discovered it has the capacity to steal or alger elec twenty documents

by now nobody doubts the program was development by a government entity that something like this appears to be what they would call state sponsored it sounds like the n.s.a. it is even but i mean they're necessary to see has it does this kind of thing we know they've done this kind of things you're getting intelligence without having to put someone actually there it's cyber espionage while the flame war was collecting intelligence the stuxnet virus borrowed into iran's nuclear program and created havoc in its uranium enrichment centrifuges the obama administration did not deny the leaks in the new york times that it had teamed up with israel to create stocks net some fear that the move almost invites retaliate where you attack or for instance iraq's nuclear program you provide the iranians with their weapons your word which they can read reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works turn it around send your way elise. eating moscow based security firm which

uncovered the flame virus says part of its code is nearly identical to the code finding stocks net and suggested that the viruses were developed by two teams working in collaboration leaks in the press support that assessment one official also on condition of anonymity said is just the beginning and the u.s. is preparing the battlefield for another type of covered action we're setting precedent for other nations and that's where the real problem lies because we've been criticizing china for allegedly attacking united states companies and u.s. governments while the same time engaging in this in the same conduct with other countries feel bomb administration has openly confirmed hacking websites but only if alleged al qaeda sympathizers in yemen the u.s. secretary of state described this cyber effort as part of a larger attack on terrorism but many fear the u.s. cyber efforts go well beyond that as u.s. defense authorities go offensive in cyber warfare the pentagon's cyber command has

fast track to the development of the weapons that ministration just announced a one hundred ten million dollar program to solicit proposals from universities and video game manufacturers to so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they're saying that they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to rip technology into that and so when we have no control of our technology we have these people that wish to use it for further and for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff cyberspace as a whole is now seen by the u.s. military as that vast area of opportunity you can't really tell the government don't do to others what you don't want them to you but a lot of the recent revelations about you as a state library back one might ask what are the methods of the same way the government beam into the dems library. hackers and all but it will.

like one hell of a hacker i'm going to check out reporting from watching our. breaking news the two turkish fighter jets have reportedly been detected over syria one of them has been shot down according to the syrian news agency two pilots have been captured it all happened in syria's western logic here region and comes after reports that cia agents are supervising the transfer of arms from turkey to syrian rebels we'll bring you more details as we get them. taking a look at other news from around the world this hour thousands have failed to heal a square protesting what many have called a power grab by the supreme council of the armed forces over the weekend the ruling generals dissolved parliament and claimed all legislative power meanwhile the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend it says it must review complaints from the two candidates mohamed morsi from the muslim brotherhood and hosni mubarak's our former prime minister ahmed

shafik. twenty people including twelve civilians are dead after a taliban attack on a lakeside hotel north of kabul dozens of hostages were freed by afghan security forces several hotel guests jumped into the lake just gave the gunfire present time because i has known that attacks were increasing in the run up to nato troops leaving in twenty fourteen he made the comments after twenty one people were killed in an assault on an afghan checkpoint earlier this week. time now for the business news and the end all meeting of economic heavy hitters of the same petersburg forum is in full swing in russia's capital. business r.t. and danielle the shell is there for us with exclusive in-depth coverage of the high

profile gathering danielle good to see you again one of the highlights today all the economic forum. yes the downgrade of fifteen top banks by moody's credit ratings is dominating here we just spoke to the vice chairman of one of those citi group carlos gutierrez called the move a step back he disagrees with it he said it doesn't reflect the bank's positive future so all of a growing fears in europe and the united states but the head of russia's top lender said sperm bank is too strong to be affected by those problems. but the downgrade decisions were not unexpected and the markets didn't react to them i don't think these actions will have any additional impact and while a readings don't have a single reason to be downgraded we are currently in a very stable situation which could be the envy of many western partners. earlier i spoke with italian energy giant and l's boss who complains how russia's government has gone back on its promise to introduce market prices for electricity providers in the country and their loans one of the biggest g.k.

five that failure he says has cost the company millions of dollars. first of all i would like them to continue the policy of liberalization possibly increasing the price for the. markets continue to subsidize consumer is a policy that. we think. right decision the government to protect the family should be the right one. for the rest of the market we do expect to have price increases. for the most anticipated deal here was gas from the agreement to develop one of the world's biggest gas fields with france's total the head of total though told us the contract is still. being developed. with.

the numbers for us yes sides of course everyone's reacting to the downgrade of the banks that you just mentioned let's take a look at europe and see how the trading session is going that basically i have to say it's a sea of red across the board as you can see from the numbers the fancy leaves in point eight percent of german similar there and also in germany we have business confidence that has led of course and you know that helping investors there bring up their mood for a little optimism also look at the current season will see that the euro is still gaining against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's lose against both major currencies in fact the u.s. trading at record lows right now against the u.s. so i don't know we're seeing that his points an all points that when it comes to russia a similar picture a sea of red. and the my sense is in almost every. about two

percent of my say it's about one percent and we also have prices which are not helping even though the points and i have to take a look at them or see that they are indeed mixed but the prices are hovering at eight months low is never helping the russian economy all right small this is all we have time for in this edition of business. headlines five for now.

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